Artist Lenka Clayton’s attic studio in Polish Hill. Photo: Bryan Conley
Regular feature series or “columns” to the blog.
At one time, Aliquippa was home to the world's largest steel mill. When the mill closed in 1984, however, it left the town with no clear path forward.
With the Art Lending Collection in the Braddock Carnegie Library, Transformazium maintains the community's culture while subverting arts’ narrative.
Director Lynn Zelevansky on CMOA’s historic role supporting avant-garde film and video.
Tracey Berg-Fulton tracks the provenance of a particularly mysterious painting in the permanent collection at Carnegie Museum of Art.
As executive director of the Urban Redevelopment Authority, Robert Pease led some of the key projects undertaken during the Pittsburgh Renaissance.
It took a mass shooting to draw attention to Wilkinsburg, but Vanessa German has been trying to help kids in the gun violence-plagued area for years.
In a series of striking and idiosyncratic portraits, Jack D. Teemer, Jr. offers an unvarnished look at life in the American Rust Belt of the 1980s.
Lance Scott Walker and Peter Beste offer an unparalleled portrait of the neighborhoods and clubs where Houston's renowned rap scene was born.
Provenance researcher Costas Karakatsanis follows the donations and guiding hand of Pittsburgh's Sarah Mellon Scaife and family.
Director Lynn Zelevansky discusses Pittsburgh's role as a design powerhouse at midcentury.